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Mouretsu Uchuu Kaizoku | Bodacious Space Pirates
jaybug:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 01, 2012, 05:08:25 AM ---Just in case, to clarify: the way the were talking about EW and stealth techniques.
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lol
Sorry but the tentacle monsters arrived.
While it is in no way up to par with Kubrick, this show also portrays space as an everyday living/working environment. They are having to think in terms of orbital mechanics while they must deal with a potentially very hostile situation. Like Planetes in some ways, but less adult as in not having to work for a living and deal with insurance salesmen.
I guess the only problem I have is with the sails. Are they purely for power production, or are we to believe that they actually propel the ship? I missed that somewhere I guess.
ETL19:
man last ep was kind of annoying in a boring way. i might have to drop this for a while, then pick it back up in a couple of eps.
newy:
--- Quote from: jaybug on February 01, 2012, 05:27:34 AM ---I guess the only problem I have is with the sails. Are they purely for power production, or are we to believe that they actually propel the ship? I missed that somewhere I guess.
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Afaik, there have been experiments or rather theories to propel satellites with the solar wind but from what I remember you need extraordinary big sails to propel an object of a certain size and the acceleration is pretty slow. Don't quote me for it.
Havoc10K:
Indeed there is a theory like that, but I think it's purely free power generating mechanism, I think they can save a lot of fuel just by using solar power.
--- Quote from: ETL19 on February 01, 2012, 06:46:49 AM ---man last ep was kind of annoying in a boring way. i might have to drop this for a while, then pick it back up in a couple of eps.
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Why do you think it was boring ?
Quite a lot of info given, the episode still was shorter than 20 mins :)
I don't mind if this keeps up as it slowly enters an actual battle with a hostile ship.
That was pretty cool :)
Grimpak:
--- Quote from: Havoc10K on February 01, 2012, 10:47:07 AM ---Indeed there is a theory like that, but I think it's purely free power generating mechanism, I think they can save a lot of fuel just by using solar power.
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how about both? don't forget that hydrogen exists even in space (albeit very sparse) and that, while solar sails are required to be big, the fact that space is near frictionless, a solar sail ship will be always speeding up.
ok yes it's a long stretch but these sails might combine both? a solar sail that serves as a secondary propulsion system and gathers fuel for the primary propulsion at the same time?
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